About The Neil Gaiman Audio Collection

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish: An memorable story that takes visitors on a journey into the murky notice of the young boy and the perils of striking a bargain.

The Wolves in the Walls: Lucy is certain there are wolves living in the walls of their home - and, as everybody states, if the wolves come from the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Next 1 day, the wolves come out.

Cinnamon: This charming fable of an exotic princess who refuses to speak currently exists just on Neil's official website and has not been published in print or any different structure.

Crazy Hair: Bonnie tried to comb the narrator's crazy hair - where gorillas leap and tigers stalk - and is in for a surprise in this delightful rhyming story.

About Neil Gaiman

Bestselling writer Neil Gaiman has lengthy been among the top writers in contemporary comics, plus composing books for visitors of all ages. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as among the top ten living post-modern writers, and is a prolific creator of functions of prose, poetry, movie, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.

His New York Times bestselling 2001 novel for adults, American Gods, was granted the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards, was nominated for other awards, including the World Fantasy Award and the Minnesota Book Award, and appeared on countless best-of-year lists.

Gaiman's eagerly awaited upcoming novel for adults, Anansi Boys debuted found on the New York Times Bestseller list in September, 2005. About Anansi Boys Gaiman says: "It's a scary, funny type of the story, which isn't precisely a thriller, and isn't absolutely horror, and doesn't very qualify as a ghost story (although it has at least 1 ghost in it), or perhaps a romantic comedy (although there are many romances in there, and it's absolutely a comedy, except for the scary bits).” An sound variation of the whole text of Anansi Boys, as read by UK comedian Lenny Henry, has equally been published by HarperAudio as both normal CDs and as MP3-CDs.

The Sundance Film Festival premiere of Mirrormask, a Jim Henson Company Production created by Neil Gaiman and guided by Dave McKean, took region in January 2005. The movie was introduced from Goldwyn/Sony on September 30, 2005. Mirrormask, a lavishly tailored book containing the complete script, black and white storyboards, full-color art within the movie, and augmented by notes and observations by the creators is published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Mirrormask, a pic book for young visitors, furthermore created by Gaiman and illustrated with art within the film, is published by HarperCollins Children's Books in October 2005, and The Alchemy of Mirrormask will be published by CollinsDesign that same month.

With Roger Avary, Neil Gaiman wrote the script for Beowulf, guided by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie.

Gaiman is co-author, with Terry Pratchett, of Good Omens, a really funny novel about how the globe will end and we're all going to die, which invested 17 straight weeks found on the Sunday Times (London) bestseller list in 1990 and has gone on to become an global bestseller. In March 2006, Morrow may publish a hot hardcover edition of the book, which can include an introduction and additional ancillary information within the authors.

Gaiman was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman, which won 9 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, including the honor for right author 4 instances, and 3 Harvey Awards. Sandman #19 took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for ideal brief story, creating it the initial comic ever to be granted a literary honor. Norman Mailer mentioned of Sandman: "Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I state it's about time."

His six-part fantastical TV series for the BBC, Neverwhere, aired in 1996. His novel, also known as Neverwhere, set in the same unusual underground globe as the tv series, was introduced in 1997. It appeared on many bestseller lists, including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Locus. Film rights to Neverwhere have been purchased by Jim Henson Productions; Gaiman has created a draft of the script for the movie.

Gaiman's initially book for kids, The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, came out in May 1997, was indexed by Newsweek as among the right children's books of the year, and was reissued to acclaim by HarperCollins in 2003.

Stardust, a prose novel in 4 components, started to appear from DC Comics in October 1997. Illustrated by Charles Vess, it is very a fairy story for adults. The accumulated DC adaptation appeared in late 1998, and in January 1999 Morrow/Avon introduced the all-prose unillustrated adaptation of Stardust; it received starred critiques from Booklist, Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, appeared on a amount of American bestseller lists, was indexed by Publishers Weekly as among the right books of the year, and was granted the prestigious Mythopoeic Award as right novel for adults in August 1999.

His collection of brief fiction, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, was published in 1998. It was nominated in the UK for a MacMillan Silver Pen honor as the number one brief story collection of the year.

Gaiman's 1999 return to Sandman, the prose book The Dream Hunters, with art by Yoshitaka Amano, won the Bram Stoker honor for ideal illustrated function by the Horror Writers Association, and was nominated for a Hugo honor.

Two Plays For Voices (2002), an sound adaptation of 2 of Gaiman's brief stories, and starring Brian Dennehy and Bebe Neuwirth, was granted a 2002 Audie Award by the Audio Publishers Association.

At the finish of 2002 Gaiman wrote and guided his initially movie, in organization with Ska Films: a brief, dark, funny function called "A Short Film about John Bolton," that is accessible on DVD. In 2006, Gaiman may direct his initially feature length movie, based on his graphical novel "Death: The High Cost of Living” for New Line Films.

His children's novel Coraline, published in 2002, was additionally a New York Times and global bestseller and a massive important success; it won the Elizabeth Burr/ Worzalla, the BSFA, the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Bram Stoker awards. Director Henry Selick is create the movie "Coraline”, with music provided by the band They Might Be Giants.

In 2003 The Wolves in the Walls, illustrated by his longtime collaborator Dave McKean, was published, and it was called by the New York Times as among the right illustrated books of the year. It is currently being prepared into an opera by the Scottish National Theatre. 2003 furthermore saw the appearance of the initial Sandman graphical novel in 7 years, Endless Nights, which was published by DC Comics and was the initially graphical novel to create the New York Times bestseller list.

In 2004, Gaiman published the initially amount of the serialized story for Marvel called 1602, which was the bestselling comic of the year, and was a Quills Award finalist in the graphical novel category.

Gaiman's function has appeared in translation in dozens of nations all over the world. His journalism has appeared in Wired, Time Out London, The London Sunday Times, Punch, The Observer Colour Supplement, and has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Bookworld.

Tori Amos sings about Neil on her albums "Little Earthquakes", "Under the Pink", "Boys for Pele", and "Scarlet's Walk”; and he's created songs for the Minneapolis band The Flash Girls ("the discover of the year and maybe beyond" -- Utne Reader), for Chris Ewen's "The Hidden Variable", and for the band One Ring Zero.

In August 1997 the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a First Amendment business, granted Gaiman their Defender of Liberty Award. In 2000 he did the final series of "Guardian Angel" readings, which he started doing for the CBLDF in 1993, and changed the retiring Frank Miller on the CBLDF Board of Directors. In September 2005 he is 1 of 17 bestselling authors who, in help of the First Amendment Project, usually auction off the opportunity to name a character in an future book.

Gaiman's official webpage, www.neilgaiman.com, today has multiple million distinctive visitors each month, and his online diary is syndicated to thousands of blog visitors daily.

Born and raised in England, Neil Gaiman today lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and nevertheless seems to want a haircut.

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